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January 25, 2018

2017 - Big Data and predictive analytics - Rickard Sandberg - Stockholm School of Economics

Today, most retailers have access to very large amounts of data - so-called 'Big Data'. This data can e.g. ....

January 25, 2018

2017 - Research School in Accounting - FIRE - Torkel Strömsten - Stockholm School of Economics, SIR

The accounting profession has long been under great pressure. Several key players such as FAR and the Swedish Association of...

January 25, 2018

2017 - External accounting and corporate relations - Gunnar Wahlström - University of Gothenburg

This project is part two of the Foundation-funded project "External Accounting and Corporate Relations in Capital Markets". Three fundraising activities...

January 25, 2018

2017 - Pelle Söderberg - a biography - Alexander Husebye - Center for Business History

The Center for Business History is undertaking a book project that recounts and examines the life of Per Olof (Pelle) Söderberg (1836–1881) within the context of industrial history....

January 25, 2018

2017 - The impact of the Internet on productivity, labor markets and globalization - Anders Åkerman - Stockholm University

One of the biggest issues of our time is how accelerating technological developments are affecting the way our economies work. The internet, the...

January 25, 2017

2016 - Poverty care and the ballot paper: on the economic stratification of voting rights after 1921 - Fia Sundevall - Stockholm University

The project aims to explore the limitations of political citizenship of people on welfare after the democratic breakthrough. When so-called universal suffrage was introduced...

January 25, 2017

2016 - Consumer behavior - classical and contemporary perspectives - Karin M. Ekström - University of Borås

Translation of the textbook "Consumer Behavior - Classical and Contemporary Perspectives" from Swedish to English. The book is authored by Karin M. Ekström,...

January 25, 2017

2016 - Real estate prices in Stockholm city center from the 17th century to today - Rodney Edvinsson - Stockholm University

The rise in house prices in Stockholm over the past 20 years is unprecedented in a historical perspective. The relationship between real estate prices and various...

January 25, 2017

2016 - Transparency in capital equipment sales - Christoph Schneider - Stockholm School of Economics, SIR

The aim of the project is to study Open Book Accounting (OBA) in capital equipment sales. OBA was established as a new field...

January 25, 2017

2016 - Rock carvings and economic cycles - Johan Ling - University of Gothenburg

The starting point of the proposed project is that the rock carvings are a unique source material that can be linked to economic cycles in the metal trade and...

January 25, 2017

2016 - Trust, tolerance and growth - new methods for finding causal links - Niclas Berggren - Swedish Institute for Business Research

It is not self-evident that an economy functions well and contributes to increased prosperity. In recent years, economists have realized...

January 25, 2017

2016 - Sweden's man in London - Björn Prytz's private archive - Martin Fritz

The private archive of Björn Prytz, Swedish envoy in London during the Second World War, which was made available to me, has now been...